"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...

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Speaking at yesterday’s Social Media Research Summit, organised by the Market Research Society (MRS), Pulsar’s co-founder and vice president of product and research, Francesco D'Orazio, demonstrated ...

Does email substitute for or augment in-person and phone contact? Since the internet became popular, analysts have wondered about the relationship between email and other means of social contact. Some ...

The twin deficits hypothesis has long been central to macroeconomic debates, positing that a government’s chronic fiscal deficit may generate or exacerbate a current account deficit. This ...

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

Think back to elementary school during which you learned about a seemingly useless mathematical relic called prime numbers. Your teacher told you in class one day that they are special numbers, ...